Word: thwart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knocking on every door. When nobody answers, they alert the railroad police to watch for the resident. Banks are now required to report the name of anyone who draws a suspiciously large amount of cash from his account. As a result, would-be refugees now leave on weekends to thwart the commandos (since many Dresdeners take vacation weekends in the summer anyway), never draw more than $50 in cash to take with them...
...something of a prophet. He took an "optimistic view of the future," he wrote in 1923. "For since the money economy is a complex of human institutions, it is subject to amendment. What we have to do is find out just how the rules of our own making thwart our wishes, and to change them...
Human reproduction requires a perfect balance of so many factors that to scientists it seems little short of miraculous that the process ever succeeds. Yet for centuries man has failed to find an acceptable, safe, sure and economical way to thwart it. He has tried about a dozen...
Working from fragmentary records, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission ruefully estimated last September that in the South only one Negro out of every four of voting age was registered. To thwart systematic exclusion of eligible Negroes from voting lists, the commission proposed that, where investigation proved exclusion, the President appoint federal registrars to guarantee voting rights denied by local officials. Promptly denounced by Southerners, the proposal was coolly received by President Eisenhower and Attorney General William P. Rogers. One reason: the registrar plan, as a direct executive remedy, would frontally assault what remained of "states' rights...
...Ignoring supersonic bombers and ICBMs, Britain's angry old field marshal added darkly that the tunnel would end "the inviolability of our island against the footsteps of an invader." To placate such critics, tunnel planners have included a dip at either end which could be flooded quickly to thwart invaders, pumped out later. The only cogent argument against construction of a tunnel, as the Times once commented, is that it would end the debate as to whether it ever was a good plan, "thus depriving posterity of an intellectual exercise from which successive generations have derived a great deal...